Special xmas screening – 23rd of December 2013
at Hot Numbers coffee
Unit 6, Dales Brewery, Gwydir St, CB1 2LJ Cambridge at 7pm
| Free entrance (18 certification) |
Memory project in Cambridge
Could you help tell the story of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden ?
If you do have film footage of the botanic garden you could share, please do get in touch. All film formats will be converted for digital use and the original film will be returned to you along with a digital copy. Click here for more info.
Volunteer meeting in September and October 2013
Challenge yourself with Super 8 project, fill an art space wih motion and noise, help put on showings and festivals.
We have equipment. We have projects. We have dreams.
We need friends and collaborators.
Come and meet us.
Monday 30th September 6:00pm
Wednesday 09h October 6:00pm
Wednesday 23rd October 6:30pm
at the University social club bar (downstairs) on Mill lane, Cambridge or contact us using our contact page
Small frame, big ideas – Sunday 23rd of June 2013
As part of new film strand to Ely Cinema & Village Screens during the Isle of Ely Arts Festival (celebrating the best of arts & culture throughout East Cambridgeshire this June), a special programme of Super 8 films will be presented at the Ely Cinema at 3pm on the 23rd of June
Floating micro cinema on the 21 June 2013 4:30 – 9:30pm in Ely
Last summer, over 40 people took part in a LIVE DUCK SHOOT filming Ely’s Muscovy Ducks with Super 8 cameras on Ely Riverside. This summer solstice the LIBERTY BELLE tour boat will become a FLOATING MICRO CINEMA with a special afternoon/evening of Super 8mm footage from the LIVE DUCK SHOOT along with a selection of films relating to life on the river.
Hardcore Wondermentalism!
As part of the Flicker: Artists & Super 8 exhibition in Bury St Edmunds, we’ve invited a number of practitioners to run hands-on workshops. Over the weekend of 16/17 February it was the turn of Martha Jurksaitis, founder of Cherry Kino in Leeds, to lead a group that shot and developed films in a darkroom under her expert supervision. We caught up with Martha at Abbeygate Picturehouse on the Saturday evening and interviewed her at length about the European DIY developing scene, the origins of Cherry Kino and the attractions of playing with film chemistry. Listen to the interview (MP3, 28 minutes, 25MB).
Martha curates work under the banner of “Wondermental Cinema” and you can follow her blog.
In the interview she mentions the Hamburg supplier Wittner and the new ADOX monochrome film.
Coming soon in this interview series: Dagie Brundert! And more adventures among the fixer-fingered folk keeping film alive and kicking…
Super 8 Cine Night at the Swann – Friday 22nd of March 2013
SUPER 8 CINE FILM NIGHT AT THE SWAN, LAWSHALL, BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK IP29 4QA
FRIDAY 22 MARCH 8PM
FREE ENTRY
A night of retro film footage, social historical images with musical treats. Also the opportunity to bring along any film you have, there will be spare projectors and hands on experience to show you how. Or just come along and enjoy the show.
There will be plenty of popcorn too!
South: A Journey in Super 8 – Performance on Friday the 22 March 1013
South:
A Journey in Super 8
Friday 22 March
6.30-7pm, Admission free
To mark the final evening of Flicker: Artists and Super 8 we present a live performance by Chris Mizsak and Tony Scott from Bell Art Laboratories. South uses live spoken word, sound and Super 8 projections to tell the story of two characters, a saint and a biker, who travel through different landscapes and time scales, eventually reaching the same destination. Shot and edited entirely on Super 8mm, the work is presented as a triptych of three projected films, exploring the perspectives of the two characters within the landscape itself.
Flicker – The official film selection – Sunday 10th of March 2013
Sunday 10th of March 2013 at 1:30pm at Abbeygate Picturehouse (Bury St Edmunds)
| Bike Light by Nicholas Kovats - Canada ( 2012) | Waterworks by Arnaud Gerber - Germany |
| Lyrebird Soup by Naren Wilks - UK (2012) | Collide-o-scope by Naren Wilks - UK |
| Bridge Study by Naren Wilks - UK | Farewell by Natali Ilchuk - Ukraine ( 2011) |
| Carry that Weight by Andrea Nevi - Italy ( 2011) | Everything with You by Art Boonparn - USA |
| Raga for the Light by Ruchi Mital - USA | Before War by Jared Katsiane - USA (2010) |
| Coming Soon by László Hegedűs - Hungary ( 2010) | Voice Over by Ronis Varlaam - UK (2012) |
| ABC of couple by Dairo Cervantes - Colombia | Putain Lapin by Guerin van de Vorst - Belgium |
La tete infernale – Super 8 Installation from Saturday 9th March until Saturday 23rd March 2013
Smiths Row and the Cambridge Super 8 Group in association with Abbeygate Picturehouse in Bury St Edmunds near Cambridge will present a new work by Swiss art-collective MOBILESKINO.
La Tête Infernale is a film installation that celebrates the early cinema trickery of French pioneer Georges Méliès. In the tradition of the Kinetoscope, viewers can look inside a peephole and see a 3D effect moving-image of Méliès’ head preserved in a glass bottle. The illusion is created entirely with 19th century stage magic tricks and Super 8 film; and without the use of CGI or any hidden digital components.
MOBILESKINO is a collective of artists, animators, film-technicians and sound designers. The group’s projects occupy the space between digital and analogue media. Conducting research in the field of interactive environments, the group combines mechanical and electronic technologies to build art machines and installations.
Méliès was an illusionist and pioneer in early cinema special effects such as the ‘stop trick’ and hand colouring. His most famous film A Trip to the Moon (1902) is regarded as the first science fiction movie.